Title taken from text. Album caption: Still going up since No. 13. Looking for an old pack trail to make the next ascent. This picture taken on July 5th., 1913.
Title from verso. Image shows members of the Lindley-Liek Expedition that made the first successful ascent of both peaks of Mount McKinley in 1932. The men are shown looking for the body of Allen Carpe, who also climbed Mount McKinley in 1932...
Signed "Rear Admiral M. White." Manuscript map on verso. Paper cut from margins of other maps attached with tape to make a drawing surface large enough for verso map.
Published in Poultry, England in 1851 by J.D. Potter. Scale is not...
Shows tracks of various ships. Insets: Chart of the territories discovered & examined by the searching expeditions under the command of Cap. Austin & Cap. Penny, 1851 -- Beechey Island, site of Sir J. Franklin's winter quarters, 1845-1846. Plate...
Insets: Chart of the territories discovered & examined by the searching expeditions under the command of Cap. Austin & Cap. Penny, 1851 -- Beechey Island, site of Sir J. Franklin's winter quarters, 1845-1846. From Bartholomew's Supplement to...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Title taken from caption. "9286 -- (2) The third day after leaving Seattle, the Arctic travelers found themselves in the midst of the characteristic scenic wonders of the new Northwest, and they reveled in the glorious vistas from the upper...
Title taken from caption. " U.S. Revenue Cutter 'Rush' at Valdez, Alaska." Cataloguer's note: Named in honor of Richard Rush (1780 - 1859) who was a statesman and a diplomat, during the administrations of Adams and John Quincy Adams. The...
Title taken from note with photo. "Eskimo scouts removing obstacles barring entrance to a damaged home Anchorage -- searching for victim 28 March, 1964."
Crew aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa prepare to launch a surf boat to investigate a distressed vessel. From May's journal, dated June 1st: "By radio we hear that two boats have been reported missing, and we are now searching for them....
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "This is one of the places the Japs landed." View of Chief Michael Hodikof and his son eating lunch on a beach at Holtz Bay. From May's journal, dated July 16th: "The natives, when the fishing is poor,...
Title taken from verso. View of Eskimo man standing next to boat made of skins at Point Barrow, Alaska. Also from verso: "The Eskimo hunter in Alaska's polar zone spend much of their time searching the rugged arctic coast for seal, walrus, polar...
Russians and Americans searching for the downed airplane of Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, North Cape, Siberia. From verso: "Russians and Americans digging a trench thru 6 ft. of hard snow, to locate the bodies. The Russian in left foreground...
Title from notes with original negative Men are identified as Hobbs and Hill Twelve USAAC Douglas B-18A Bolo light-medium bombers were sent to Elmendorf Field in 1940. Six were given to the 73rd Medium Bombardment Squadron and six to the...
Title from notes with original negative Military men are identified as Lt. Tom G. Sinner & Capt Geo. W. A. Beyer Twelve USAAC Douglas B-18A Bolo light-medium bombers were sent to Elmendorf Field in 1940. Six were given to the 73rd Medium...
Twelve USAAC Douglas B-18A bombers were sent to Elmendorf Field in 1940. Six were given to the 73rd Medium Bombardment Squadron and six to the 36th Heavy Bombardment Squadron. After Pearl Harbor was attacked, both squadrons flew coastal patrol from...
Title from notes with corresponding envelope Twelve USAAC Douglas B-18A bombers were sent to Elmendorf Field in 1940. Six were given to the 73rd Medium Bombardment Squadron and six to the 36th Heavy Bombardment Squadron. After Pearl Harbor was...